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...shores of Lake Cayuga stands Cornell, partly on a low plateau deeply serrated by close-wooded hollows. The process of erosion has done well by the university, for Cornell's ravines are a joy to her poetasters, a convenience to her cavaliers, a laboratory for her scientists. The late longtime (since 1889) Trustee Henry Woodward Sackett, Manhattan lawyer, counsel for the New York Herald Tribune, loved well these natural wonders. Said he: "Since my first knowledge of Cornell University, I have regarded the beautiful deep ravines or gorges . . .'as among the choicest physical assets of the university. . . . Every...
...Nova Scotia last week made Captain David William Bone of the Anchor liner Transylvania uncertain of his bearings as he approached Nantucket, en route from Glasgow to Manhattan. He should have been over the continental shelf, the underwater plateau which extends 150 miles seaward from the North American coast. He ordered a sounding lead dropped. At 100 fathoms it should have touched bottom. It touched nothing. Twice more he sounded. No bottom. Although puzzled he decided that he was on his correct course and the Shelf might be out of place. Apparently last month's earthquake (TIME...
Mounted gunmen hired by Ferocious Fimbres recently located the Apaches?a small tribe said to number only 25?on an almost inaccessible fortified plateau, high in the Sierra Madre Mountains. "This time they cannot escape!" Fimbres exulted last week. "Blood of God's Mother, I have waited three years ! It may take till spring to starve them out, but we shall kill all who are up there except one little boy?...
...charts of the region he figured that there must exist a high spot on the ocean floor about where he would like it. He asked Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to send a survey ship to check his calculations. He was right. The survey showed a little plateau just 400 miles from Manhattan and 375 miles from Bermuda, in an almost direct line. It is six miles long by four miles wide and only two miles below sea level, whereas the surrounding ocean is three to four miles deep. The difference in depth means thousands of dollars...
...bastions of defense. The name West Point was first brought before the public eye when, in 1776, the realization came both to the Colonists and to the British Chief Staff that a strategical control of the Hudson was a necessity. Should loyal New England sons hold this tiny plateau, the Colonies would not be out in two; should Britain force this key point, she might easily reduce the two parts of the infant Republic. West Point was fortified by New York farmers, garrisoned, and held until the end of the Revolution...